I am wondering what, in your opinion, is the best brand of HD to go for in a laptop. I ask this as my 'ex-current' hard drive (the _second_ WD in a month (!)) has failed and I wanted to know which brands are the most reliable in your collective opinion.

I am wondering what, in your opinion, is the best brand of HD to go for in a laptop. I ask this as my 'ex-current' hard drive (the _second_ WD in a month (!)) has failed and I wanted to know which brands are the most reliable in your collective opinion.

Ed

I use WD on my laptop and desktop, (at least 10),
never had a problem.

I've had no end of trouble with Seagate drives. I tend to buy Samsung drives (both 3.5" and 2.5") as they're usually cheaper than their Western Digital equivalents.

On the SSD front (if you may think about that route) I avoid OCZ like the plague as myself and my friends have had their drives die very quickly and randomly in the past... I'm also somewhat cautious about drives using a Sandforce controller, so I tend to stick with Crucial or Intel.